Bush to Embrace Additional $25 Billion
In Spending as He Pursues Budget Deal

By

David Rogers Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 28, 2001 12:01 a.m. ET

WASHINGTON -- Seeking a year-end budget deal with Congress to avoid disrupting government operations, the White House is prepared to embrace annual appropriations bills totaling $25 billion more than the spending target set by Republicans last spring.

For the new fiscal year that begins Monday, discretionary spending for government operations would grow to about $686 billion, compared with the $661.3 billion in the May budget...